Radio Highlights: Live sets from Pillow Queens and Cruel Sister

Plus: Fachtna Ó Drisceoil will focus on the main issues related to the referenda taking place on International Women’s Day, and R na G will broadcast from Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn in Cork city

Dublin rockers Pillow Queens, recorded in live action at last year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize ceremony will be on 2FM's The Alternative this Thursday. Picture: Darragh Kane

SATURDAY

An tSeachtain le Máirín Ní Ghadhra, R na G, 11am: Live from the Carlton Hotel, Blanchardstown, Dublin, for the Conradh na Gaeilge Ard-Fheis.

Spórt an Tráthnóna, R na G, 6.20pm: Live GAA commentary from Croke Park as Dublin take on Kerry in football and Limerick in hurling.

This Way Out, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, 8pm: Award-winning, internationally-distributed weekly LGBT+ radio programme, produced in Los Angeles.

SUNDAY

The Lyric Feature, Lyric FM, 6pm: A Living Voice — Donegal: Traditional Irish musicians from Donegal reinterpret scores collected by Séamus Ennis in the 1940s.

An Cúinne Dána, R na G, 6.30pm: February’s book of the month is Cuimhní Poircealláin agus Scéalta Eile with author Majella Ní Dhomhnaill.

MONDAY

Oliver Callan RTÉ 1, 9am: Comedian and impersonator continues to plough his own furrow in the station’s prized mid-morning talk slot.

C.A.K.E., RTÉ Jr, 7pm: Kids’ radio show journeys back in time to explore the world of arts and culture at Casino Marino.

Groovers’ Corner, RTÉ 2XM, 9pm: RTÉ radio producer and trendsetter Peter Curtin oversees an eclectic selection of music from independent music scenes around the world.

Comedian and impersonator Oliver Callan continues to plough his own furrow in the station’s prized mid-morning talk slot. Picture: Paul Doherty

TUESDAY

The Alternative, 2FM, 11pm: Live in a newly-recorded session at Studio 8, Dublin alt-rocker Cruel Sister and full live band.

WEDNESDAY

Radio Free UCC, UCC 98.3FM, 1pm: Eclectic music show hosted by Cormac Donovan O’Neill, spotlighting new Irish pop, folk, alternative and indie releases.

Tús Áite, R na G, 5pm: Live from Siopa an Leabhar in Harcourt Street, Dublin, Fachtna Ó Drisceoil will focus on the main issues related to the referenda taking place on International Women’s Day.

Documentary on One, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, 5pm and 11pm: Radio 1’s digital sister station mines over 35 years of documentaries on life in Ireland and further afield.

THURSDAY

The Alternative, 2FM, 11pm: Dublin rockers Pillow Queens, recorded in live action at last year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize ceremony, Vicar Street, Dublin.

FRIDAY

An Saol ó Dheas, R na G, 12pm: Broadcasting from Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Álainn in Cork city today — celebrating the city’s first multidenominational Gaelscoil more than 30 years on from its foundation.

Click Clack, RTÉ 2XM, 1pm: Two hours of DIY, independent and alternative sounds with Dublin rockers The Dudley Corporation’s head bottle-washer, Dudley Colley.

Centrifugal, UCC 98.3FM, 5pm: An “odds-and-sods” show hosted by Leeside music hero Jim “Comic” Morrish, charting favourite tunes and musical discoveries.